Vegetarian Star

Iron Chef America-Amanda Cohen of Dirt Candy. Credit: Healthy Happy Life

Amanda Cohen, founder and chef of New York city vegetarian restaurant Dirt Candy, will be competing on Iron Chef America on August 29th, 2010 at 10 PM ET/PT against Chef Masaharu Morimoto in a vegetarian on vegetarian challenge.

To Cohen’s surprise, Moriomoto stuck to an entirely vegetarian menu during the challenge in which Cohen worked so hard her pants fell down.

“I can only hope that this moment didn’t make it onto national TV,” Cohen told Lunch Box Bunch about the embarrassing moment during an exclusive interview.

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

Today’s the last day to enter The Dorm Room Diet “Get A Tip, Give A Tip” contest for a chance to receive a free copy of the book written by Daphne Oz with a forward by her father and daytime TV host, Dr. Mehmet Oz.

To enter, simply leave a comment on this post giving your tip for staying healthy. Be sure to also check out our exclusive interview with Daphne.

In The Dorm Room Diet, Daphne writes about “Danger Zones” or situations where you may be tempted to eat unhealthy high sugar, high fat and low nutrient foods like while watching TV, studying or working late at night or in social situations. One way to counter this is by eating berries during these times.

“They take time to eat, come in small pieces, and are sweet enough to curb sugar cravings,” Daphne writes.

Don’t forget to buy berries organic whenever possible, as some of them, like blueberries and strawberries, are on the dirty dozen list of produce that contains the highest levels of pesticide residue.

And that’s the final tip of the day. What’s yours?

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“The vegetarians are a little mad at me because I said all the fat people should eat them. Of course I love all people, and I found a lot of vegetarians have a really good sense of humor. So they get it, and we all get along.”

–Comedian Loni Love, on her jokes made about vegetarians. Hard to say which is worst, the cannibalistic fat people joke or the one about your pet pig one day providing dinner. Maybe she should leave the veggie humor to vegan comedian Myq Kaplan.

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Ok! magazine has a regular column titled, “What I Ate,” where a nutritionist gives the lowdown on a celebrity’s diet.

According to The Frisky, Kesha recently gave readers a glimpse into her day where she ate lots of tofu, nuts and veggies.

The Frisky Writes:

“Usually, it’s boring. But this week Ke$ha revealed that she ate nothing but green tea, almonds, candy, veggies with barbecue sauce, and tofu in an entire day.”

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Colbie Caillat and members of her band, including Justin Young, made a stop on their tour to Farm Sanctuary, not to play for the animals but to get acquainted with some of creatures guitarist Young has helped campaign for through his Twitter and other media.

Young, who last time we heard, was aspiring to become a vegetarian for environmental reasons, expressed interest in helping Farm Sanctuary during it’s Ohio Ballot Initiative Campaign, which sought to provide changes to legislation for farm animal treatment like banning certain types of crating and making penalties for cock fight more severe.

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Jason Mraz has been named the 2010 Surf Industry Manufacturers Association (SIMA) Humanitarian of the Year.

Fernando Aguerre, SIMA Humanitarian Fund president said of the vegan musician, “As a fellow surfer who calls the beaches of San Diego home, Jason is one of our own.”

“He not only inspires us and millions of young people around the world with his amazing musical talent, but we are all immensely impressed by his humble and eager heart to help others and make this world a better place,” Aguerre added.

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Last Chance Highway is an Animal Planet documentary featuring animals from high-kill shelters finding homes.

Last Chance’s Shelly Bookwalter can sometimes be seen on the show wearing furs and Peta needed to know: Are those real?

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"The Dorm Room Diet" Daphne Oz

Today’s tip in the Dorm Room Diet book giveaway is about reducing your impact on the planet by purchasing locally grown food. Fresher food is less subject to factors involved in traveling longer distances like light and temperature that may impact nutrient levels once it finally reaches your plate.

The easiest way to be a locavore is to buy food from the grocery store that was grown and traveled <100 miles to the shelves. But The Dorm Room Diet gives more tips for getting food closer to the source:

• Visit the local farmer’s market

• Set up home or dorm delivery of produce from a local farm

• Join a co-op

• Establish a Farm-To-School program

• Go to a local farm and help plant and harvest greens yourself

To enter to win The Dorm Room Diet, leave a comment on this post giving your tip for staying healthy. Full contest rules can be found here.

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